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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

What is a U2charist?

This excerpt from ABC news NightLine was posted on YouTube earlier this month. It presents a quick summary of what a U2carist is all about. Speaking for myself, I think we should have one here at VTS. Comments?

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Readers, I've received an email from someone who should know that helpfully traces the origins of the U2charist back farther than the reference to Maine in this video clip. I have asked if I may post this information here in my blog, and am hopeful that I will receive permission. ---SLC

Hey, Stephen -- sorry if I wasn't explicit and clear earlier. You absolutely have my permission to talk about the origins of the U2charist in Baltimore and how it spread from there to Maine and beyond, and I've actually finally put down my guitar and my laptop long enough to put up a web page on the subject, and with gathered wisdom for those thinking about hosting or how they might learn from the U2charist. The U2charist resources page is more general, and the U2charist FAQ has the answers to frewntly asked questions about the U2charist, including about its origins (which -- as you're absolutely right to point out -- go back almost two years and dozens of congregations, including one keynote U2charist at a diocesan clergy conference in 2004, before hitting Maine.

Feel free to give me a shout if there's any way I can be of help, with information or anything else.

Duties of a son, from The Story of Aqhat: To erect a stele for his ancestral gods; to build a family shrine in the sanctuary;
to guard his footsteps from earth to underworld; to take his hand when he is drunk; to put his arm over one's shoulder when he is full of
wine; to eat a funeral meal in the temple of Ba'al; to offer a sacrifice in the house of El.